Discovery

Peaceful Valley oil 18 x 14 SOLD

So it has been about 7 months since I started writing this blog.  I have posted more than I thought I would.  I have also discovered something about myself. I am not a writer. Blogging has become another thing on the list of things I have to do.  I thought it might give my readers some insight into my work, but what I have found is that I love to paint.  Painting doesn't feel like a job to me.  I amvery lucky that I somehow wound up making my living at it.

I have work to do and it is making paintings.  So, I am going to leave you with this post.  In the meantime, you can keep up with my work and my current events on my website http://www.katekieslerfineart.com/.

I will still keep up with my favorite blogs and I will still spend my free time taking in all I can about art.  I hope you do to.

Anne Truitt

                                                                 

One of my favorite books is called TURN: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt.  I reread it about once a year.Truitt was a sculptor (her work appears above).  She is no longer living. In the days before the internet and the current blogging trend, she wrote a couple of books that chronicled her daily life as an artist. The other book is called DAYBOOK and is also very worth the read. Since I have started to write this blog I have been thinking about her and her writing.  She was courageous and her writing and her sculptures were spare, but luminous. Secretly, I enjoy her books more than her sculptures. Second to painting, I love reading and any book that makes me look at my life as an artist in a different light is worth recommending.